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Sony cuts prices on PlayStation Store content for Canadians

Sony has announced that the entire roster of content for the Canadian …

The Canadian-American dollar parity continues to trouble consumers, but some companies are rightfully beginning to make changes. We previously reported on how the price discrepancies affect the game industry—namely, the online stores of Microsoft and Sony, where price adjustment is the easiest. Sony has now announced that the PlayStation Store will undergo a full stock adjustment to balance the prices across the two regions.

Sony was the first to act on the dollar parity issue back in October of last year, making some changes to the pricing of new content. The same balancing will now be applied to all the content on the store with "a phased approach" set to complete with the PlayStation Store update later today.

Grace Chen, Senior Manager for the PlayStation Store, remarked that the new changes were one of the ways that Sony is specifically targeting Canadian consumers. "We anticipate that this price adjustment will meet the expectations of our Canadian consumers and provide them with a better PlayStation Network experience," she said.

Both Nintendo and Sony are now acknowledging the currency parity with their online offerings. Microsoft is the only hold out, as the 25 percent markup on Microsoft Points for Canadian consumers remains intact. Sony's adjustment may be a case of "better late than never," but at least it's here—though I wish it was retroactive, as the $30 or so extra I've spent on Rock Band tracks (which previously costs CAD$2.99 versus $1.99) is now gone forever.

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